48 hours mystery: Shelley's last breath

Jay Young, Patti Aronofsky and Sarah Prior -

A couple's Caribbean vacation ends in a tragic scuba accident...or was it murder ?

It was the Caribbean vacation Shelley Tyre had been looking forward to - sunning, sailing and scuba diving with her husband and friends in Tortola. And in March 1999, it finally happened.

"They put together a really fun trip, got to do a lot of different things, where they were sailing all around the Caribbean, around the British Virgin Islands. And they were diving off the sailboat they were living on," says Jen Bloom.

But on that fateful last dive, at a site called Twin Tugs, something went horribly, mysteriously wrong. Shelley was dead and the Tortola police wanted to talk to her husband, David Swain.

He called his daughter, Jen.

"He said, 'I'm so sorry. I went with her. I don't know what happened. But Shelly died today.' And he was crying and he was very upset," Jen says. "He was doing his best to get her home. He said, 'the autopsy's gonna happen. And there's cops.'"

Tortola police began questioning David about every detail of the dive, and the local medical examiner performed the autopsy. But no one could figure out just how Shelley died.

After a few days, with no evidence of foul play, authorities ruled Shelley's death an accident and released her body to her husband.

"He had a really rough flight," Jen says. "He had to load the coffin onto the plane himself."

David's son, Jeremy Swain, recalls what happened when his father got off the plane. "He came over to me and Jen and he gave us a hug. And he said, 'It's all right. It's gonna be all right.' And he was genuinely hurt."

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